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To: wanna_bmw who wrote (148742)	11/18/2001 2:23:09 AM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

From Andy Grove's Swimming Across fortune.com Escape From Budapest In 1952, when he was a student at the Madach Gymnasium in Budapest, Hungary, Andris Grof had a favorite teacher, one Mr. Volenski, whose subject was physics. A small man with reddish hair, Mr. Volenski was a character who liked to use stories about his dog, Muki (an affectionate slang word meaning "little guy"), in his lessons. "I threw this object to my dog, Muki," he would say. "Would it be easier for him to catch it this way or that way?" Mr. Volenski was older than most of the other teachers at the school, and though he had an excellent memory for things that had happened 20 years before, he might forget a student's name even if he had seen him just a few hours earlier. Grof always sat in the front row because a childhood bout of scarlet fever had left him hard of hearing, but even so he wasn't sure that Mr. Volenski knew who he was. So he was surprised when his parents returned from a teacher conference one day and told him with great pride that Mr. Volenski had said to the assembled parents, "Life is like a big lake. All the boys get in the water at one end and start swimming. Not all of them will swim across. But one of them, I'm sure, will. That one is Grof." Excerpted from Swimming Across: A Memoir, by Andrew S. Grove, to be published November 2001 by Warner Books. Copyright (c) 2001. All rights reserved.

To: wanna_bmw who wrote (148742)	11/18/2001 11:17:39 AM
From: Ali Chen	Respond to of 186894

Wanda, "I'll remember that next time..." You are confusing two issues. One issue is "upgrade or not upgrade", with qualifier "if upgrading to DSL or cable". The answer is "no", and Milo and myself presented our experiences in support of "no". The different issue is "if upgrade, then to what?". In this case your "Intel vs AMD" clause comes to play, and with "split-hair" difference in performance the only way to justify a decision is "to split hairs over a couple of frames per second". Now you may see the nonsense of your "Which is it, Milo?" - Ali P.S. I know the normal logic is above your comprehension, but I tried...